Samerchai Poolsuwan

• Doctor of Philosophy (Anthropology), The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Professor at Thammasat University

This research explores the temple murals visualizing the Buddha life stories in the medieval context of Southeast Asian Theravāda. Being primarily based on various Pāli sources, the murals of focus – complicatedly arrayed in the shadow of the Pagan civilization, flourishing in the western sphere of the mainland from the mid-11th to the late-13th ce...

An investigation is provided on the narration of the Buddha's biography in Burmese murals of the Pagan Period (eleventh to thirteenth century ce ). It detects a development of the complete account on the subject in the oldest murals of the period at the Patho-hta-mya Temple, which probably predate the earliest known literary counterpart in Pāli, th...

This article describes Buddhist murals illustrating some unusual features and surviving in the small brick temple number 36 at Sale, one of the major satellite towns during the Pagan period. The town is located on the east bank of the Irrawady River, 30 miles downstream from Old Pagan. The temple and its principal Buddha image can be stylistically...

Located only a short distance off the southernmost shore of the Greater Indian subcontinent, the island of Sri Lanka has long been inhabited by various ethnic populations. Mainly comprising the Vedda, Sinhalese (Up- and Low-country) and Tamil (Sri Lankan and Indian); their history of settlements on the island and the biological relationships among...

The 360 base-pair fragment in HVS-1 of the mitochondrial genome were determined from ancient human remains excavated at Noen U-loke and Ban Lum-Khao, two Bronze and Iron Age archaeological sites in Northeastern Thailand, radio-carbon dated to circa 3,500-1,500 years BP and 3,200-2,400 years BP, respectively. These two neighboring populations were p...

This study provides statistical analyses of allele frequencies for populations of Thailand, with an attempt to trace the roles of differential malarial selection and genetic admixtures on the observed frequency variation of certain red cell genetic abnormalities (the two beta-globin variants--hemoglobin E and beta-thalassemia--and G-6PD deficiency)...

This paper reviews the evolutionary and natural history of malarias; it is proposed that all human malarial parasites originated from zoonotic simian plasmodiids in tropical forests of southeastern Asia, during the terminal Pleistocene or early Holocene. The modes of malarial transmission among prehistoric natives of that geographic area is reconst...

Cover title : Malaria and the evolution of human beta-globin polymorphisms in southeastern Asia. Thesis (PhD)--University of Michigan, 1991.

This dissertation investigates the evolution of human $\beta$-globin polymorphisms (hemoglobin E and $\beta$-thalassemia) in southeastern Asia. Evidence is reviewed for the evolution of these polymorphisms under malarial selection. Human malarias probably originated in southern or southeastern Asia during the terminal Pleistocene or early Holocene,...